Of course, the LAST time the Giants made the Series, Game 1 was interrupted by earthquake. My schedule for this evening calls for me to be in a basement theater. So if you don’t hear from me tomorrow, I’ll catch up with you when they dig me out of the rubble…
They were in in 2002? Ah, my memory is shaky. My apologies. The ‘89 Series was more resonant, for a number of reasons… Amend to “The last time Game 1 was played in San Francisco…”
It’s too bad Game 4 is in Texas. If we could get a nationwide audience for a San Francisco Halloween, we’d REALLY give ‘em a show. The town is already decked out in orange and black; you can’t tell the Halloween decorations from the Giants decorations until you’re up close.
I’m pretty much invariably seen in public wearing a black Akubra (a stockman’s hat, Australian), and it looks enough like a Stetson that several people have asked me whether I’m visiting from Texas for the Series. They haven’t been nasty about it, but it’s NOT an impression I want to foster. So for the duration of the Series I’m going to have to find some sort of orange accessory for it. Maybe just a band made from orange construction paper with “NOT a Texan” written on it.
After all, I wouldn’t want to be profiled as a weird-hatted religious fanatic, grown fat off our oil dependence and determined to destroy the freedoms we hold dear. People might be afraid to get on airplanes with me…
It was 1989. One of the things I found impressive was that among the first to donate money to help the emergency relief efforts were the Japanese – so many were watching the World Series when it happened, and immediately understood what had happened (Japan being rather tectonically active in its own right). Pretty cool.
Don’t bother with the rule-book on this one ref, trash talk has always been part of the game. Baseball & politics. I just wish we could charge politicos with false advertising & fraud.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
GO GIANTS!
”Let’s get WEIRD!!!” (clubhouse chant)
Fear the Beard!
Let Timmy SMOKE!
rockngolfer over 13 years ago
That, is funny!!!!
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
Of course, the LAST time the Giants made the Series, Game 1 was interrupted by earthquake. My schedule for this evening calls for me to be in a basement theater. So if you don’t hear from me tomorrow, I’ll catch up with you when they dig me out of the rubble…
rockngolfer over 13 years ago
^ Wasn’t that in 1989? How strange it has been to jar my memory on various subjects this week.
Maybe they can send the Chile tube shuttle over….
cyzicus over 13 years ago
I don’t remember a earthquake interrupting the 2002 World Series.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
They were in in 2002? Ah, my memory is shaky. My apologies. The ‘89 Series was more resonant, for a number of reasons… Amend to “The last time Game 1 was played in San Francisco…”
It’s too bad Game 4 is in Texas. If we could get a nationwide audience for a San Francisco Halloween, we’d REALLY give ‘em a show. The town is already decked out in orange and black; you can’t tell the Halloween decorations from the Giants decorations until you’re up close.
I’m pretty much invariably seen in public wearing a black Akubra (a stockman’s hat, Australian), and it looks enough like a Stetson that several people have asked me whether I’m visiting from Texas for the Series. They haven’t been nasty about it, but it’s NOT an impression I want to foster. So for the duration of the Series I’m going to have to find some sort of orange accessory for it. Maybe just a band made from orange construction paper with “NOT a Texan” written on it.
After all, I wouldn’t want to be profiled as a weird-hatted religious fanatic, grown fat off our oil dependence and determined to destroy the freedoms we hold dear. People might be afraid to get on airplanes with me…
Motivemagus over 13 years ago
It was 1989. One of the things I found impressive was that among the first to donate money to help the emergency relief efforts were the Japanese – so many were watching the World Series when it happened, and immediately understood what had happened (Japan being rather tectonically active in its own right). Pretty cool.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
Don’t bother with the rule-book on this one ref, trash talk has always been part of the game. Baseball & politics. I just wish we could charge politicos with false advertising & fraud.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
I pray people see through the bluster, but ain’t holding my breath
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
Tigger: “Alas, We the Angry Electorate’, can see through the Smoke and Mirrors put up by all Candidates running for reelection tis year.”
The smoke is just as thick and the mirrors are just as shiny coming from their challengers.